Pollster and CNN panelist Frank Luntz directly warned New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday over the political fallout of seizing former President Donald Trump’s assets.
James has threatened to seize Trump’s assets if he does not pay the $464 million bond due to be posted by March 25. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay this amount regarding allegations that he overvalued his property and wealth to receive more favorable loans.
“I want you to remember this moment and don’t forget it,” Luntz said during an appearance on CNN. “If the attorney general starts to take his homes away, starts to seize his assets, it’s all gonna be on camera. Pundits are gonna sit there scream about this, ‘this man cannot be elected.’ You’re going to create the biggest victimhood of 2024 and you’re going to elect Donald Trump. If they take his stuff, he’s gonna say that this is proof that the federal government and the establishment and the swamp in Washington and all the politicians across the country and the attorneys generals and all of this, that this is a conspiracy to deny him the presidency.”